nataliew
30-04-2011, 8:44 PM
have got the will of my 4x great grandfather Daniel Burford who died in Chiswick in 1864 via the much-subscribed online probate calendar but a couple of problems...
1) the copy is not too good and I'm hoping some of you might recognise familiar phrases
2) I'm not sure what it means in practice!
So below are the relevant parts of my transcript with my problem phrases in bold italics. If I've guessed a word I've prefixed a question mark. If there are 3 question marks, it's a whole word I can't make out!:
it starts with the usual last will and testament
I give devise and bequeath all and every my real and Personal estate and effects whatsoever and whensoever whether in possession ??sion or ??? unto my executor thereinafter named in trust? to pay over the ??? issues and profits? thereof unto my dear wife Mary Burford for and during the term of her natural life and after her decease with all ?was?? ?suable?? dispatch to ?sou?? the same into money for the best ?pair?? or ?paires?? he can obtain and divide the same ?usually or actually?? between and among my five children...
goes onto name the children as I'd expect to find them and ask that if they're dead, their share goes to their children
and I ?direct?? that the ?receipts?? of my said executor for the purchase money of my real or personal effects shall be good and sufficient ?discharges?? ?is?? the pruchases thereof and that since purchases shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my friend Daniel Stinton of Chiswick Farrier Executor of this my Will to whom I bequeath the sum of two guineas
then signs and witnesses the will
Phew!:pinch:
So my understanding is that the executor buys or somehow obtains a price for all of Daniel Burford's estate that he is then entrusted to pay to the wife. Is that right? Is that normal and why would that be?
The estate is valued below £450 and if it's relevant, the wife Mary dies two years later intestate (one of the sons is granted probate) with her estate below £200. Did the executor not pay her everything? Or was she not to be trusted with money?!
Thankyou!
1) the copy is not too good and I'm hoping some of you might recognise familiar phrases
2) I'm not sure what it means in practice!
So below are the relevant parts of my transcript with my problem phrases in bold italics. If I've guessed a word I've prefixed a question mark. If there are 3 question marks, it's a whole word I can't make out!:
it starts with the usual last will and testament
I give devise and bequeath all and every my real and Personal estate and effects whatsoever and whensoever whether in possession ??sion or ??? unto my executor thereinafter named in trust? to pay over the ??? issues and profits? thereof unto my dear wife Mary Burford for and during the term of her natural life and after her decease with all ?was?? ?suable?? dispatch to ?sou?? the same into money for the best ?pair?? or ?paires?? he can obtain and divide the same ?usually or actually?? between and among my five children...
goes onto name the children as I'd expect to find them and ask that if they're dead, their share goes to their children
and I ?direct?? that the ?receipts?? of my said executor for the purchase money of my real or personal effects shall be good and sufficient ?discharges?? ?is?? the pruchases thereof and that since purchases shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my friend Daniel Stinton of Chiswick Farrier Executor of this my Will to whom I bequeath the sum of two guineas
then signs and witnesses the will
Phew!:pinch:
So my understanding is that the executor buys or somehow obtains a price for all of Daniel Burford's estate that he is then entrusted to pay to the wife. Is that right? Is that normal and why would that be?
The estate is valued below £450 and if it's relevant, the wife Mary dies two years later intestate (one of the sons is granted probate) with her estate below £200. Did the executor not pay her everything? Or was she not to be trusted with money?!
Thankyou!